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The House Finch was originally a bird of the western United States and Mexico. In 1940 a small number of finches were turned loose on Long Island, New York, after failed attempts to sell them as cage birds (“Hollywood finches”). They quickly started breeding and spread across almost all of the eastern United States and southern Canada within the next 50 years.
The Hollywood Freeway is one of the principal freeways of Los Angeles, California (the boundaries of which it does not leave) and one of the busiest in the United States. It is the principal route through the Cahuenga Pass, the primary shortcut between the Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley. It is considered one of the most important freeways in the history of Los Angeles and instrumental in the development of the San Fernando Valley. It is the second oldest freeway in Los Angeles (after the Arroyo Seco Parkway). From its southern end at the East Los Angeles Interchange to its intersection with the Ventura Freeway in the southeastern San Fernando Valley (the Hollywood Split), it is signed as part of U.S. Route 101. It is then signed as State Route 170 north to its terminus at the Golden State Freeway (Interstate 5).
Plans for the Hollywood Freeway officially began in 1924 when Los Angeles voters approved a "stop-free express highway" between Downtown Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. The first segment of the Hollywood Freeway built was a one and a half mile stretch through the Cahuenga Pass. That segment opened on June 15, 1940. It was then known as the "Cahuenga Pass Freeway." Pacific Electric Railway trolleys ran down the center of this freeway until 1952. The next section of the freeway that stretched from the San Fernando Valley to Downtown Los Angeles opened on April 16, 1954 at a cost of $55 million. The final section, north of the Ventura Freeway to the Golden State Freeway was completed in 1968.
A year after the Hollywood Freeway opened, it was used by an average of 183,000 vehicles a day, almost double the capacity it was designed to carry. Actor Bob Hope called it the "biggest parking lot in the world" in his routine.
The segment through Hollywood was the first to be built through a heavily populated area and requiring the moving or demolition of many buildings, including Rudolph Valentino's former home in Whitley Heights. The freeway was also designed to curve around KTTV Studios and Hollywood Presbyterian Church. Much of the rubble and debris from the buildings removed for the freeway's construction was dumped into Chávez Ravine, the current home to Dodger Stadium.
In 1967, the Hollywood Freeway was the first freeway in California that had ramp meters.
Near the Vermont Avenue exit, there's a seemingly over-wide center strip now filled with trees. This is where the never-built Beverly Hills Freeway was to merge with the Hollywood Freeway. Plans for the Beverly Hills Freeway were halted in the 1970s.
The Hollywood Freeway is an expansion of the original Cahuenga Parkway, a short six-lane freeway that ran through the Cahuenga Pass between Hollywood and Studio City. The Cahuenga Parkway featured Pacific Electric Railway "Red Car" tracks in its median, but by the 1950s these tracks were out of service due to radical reductions in Red Car service. The Pacific Electric right-of-way later accommodated an additional lane in each direction.
The second location of Los Angeles High School was in the path of the freeway. The school moved to its third and current location in 1917. The school buildings were converted into a school for boys with truancy problems until 1948, when it was demolished to make way for the freeway.
Neon Sign in Hollywood, California
Russell Lee, photographer
Original picture:
www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8d28148/
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
©Russell Lee, 1942
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2022
Hollywood 1941-- the domain of gumshoe detectives, corrupt cops, and wannabe actors. An exciting time in the city of angels.
Image imagined in MidJourny AI and finished with Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.
Hollywood Hills, CA
09-04-2017
Processed 09-15-20.
This photo was taken three years ago from the grounds of the Griffith Park Observatory on my favorite kinds of days, when there are myriad fluffy clouds in the bright blue sky.
I live near the ocean, and I'm physically about 30 miles away from the nearest fires, but the skies have been oppressive and dark, bordering on apocalyptic yellow and orange, not bright blue, and raining ash at times.
I'm praying that the fires will pass, and sooner than later. The country has burned enough. Hopefully these blue skies and wondrous clouds will return above California and the West.
Los Angeles’ landmark metro station contains fabulous design features. Among them is the ceiling, covered with empty film reels.
This fast food snack stop is located on the open starboard deck area of the Queen Mary. For me I liked this image for it's contrasting scene from my vantage point, but there is something wrong about plunking a few tables and chairs on the open deck under the life boats. It detracts from the nostalgic and historical beauty this grand vessel has to offer. I went online to get some info on this deli but found nothing good, only bad to terrible reviews. That should be a signal to the gatekeepers.
If you have time I have linked a review, it is very well written and will leave you shaking your head.. www.yelp.com/biz/hollywood-deli-long-beach
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Hollywood Beach in Hollywood, Florida
There's a 2.2 mile long pedestrian promenade or boardwalk here.
We took the kids to Hollywood yesterday. I've been to LA many, many times and this is my first trip there. This is a small dog park located in a residential area close to the Hollywood Reservoir (I believe in a place called Hollywood Knolls). This is where my brother used to take his dogs to let them run. It was hazy out...hence the bright sky and sign not being clear.
Typical tourist shot.